Bang-Yen Brian Kao

Experience

1. Software Engineer

   PDI Technologies

   Feb 2024 — Present

   Building scalable backend microservices and LLM & AI Agent solutions to process millions of monthly transactions and automate root cause analysis.[AI Engineering]• Significantly reduced operational overhead by architecting a full-stack AI troubleshooting service to automate root cause analysis in distributed systems• Decreased transaction debugging time by 99% and log retrieval duration by 90% by leveraging LLM, AI Agents, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Context Engineering• Mentored and led a full-stack development team of 2 interns to launch the AI project’s MVP using TypeScript, React, and Python[Backend and Cloud]• Designed and implemented distributed microservices and APIs to process 7M+ monthly transactions using C#/.NET, Service Bus, Redis, and CosmosDB• Automated end-to-end infrastructure and code deployments by building CI/CD pipelines with Terraform and Azure DevOps for Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Functions[Tech Stack] Python, C#/.NET, TypeScript, React, OpenAI API, Azure OpenAI, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Langfuse, LLM-as-a-Judge, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Terraform, Azure DevOps, CosmosDB, Redis, SQL

Education

• National Central University

  Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering

• Rice University

  Master's degree, Computer Science